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You guys! With your support, as of 10 PM tonight 100 Fathoms Below is ranked at 258 on Amazon Kindle. Not in a particular subcategory — that’s for ALL of Amazon Kindle e-books sold! (And it’s the number two horror novel on Amazon after Bird Box!) On B&N Nook, it’s ranked at 99. Again, that’s for ALL Nook e-books sold! I’m losing my mind!

I’m thrilled that Tangent Online has seen fit to include two of my stories, “The Fire and the Stag” and “The Fifth Horseman,” in their 2018 Recommended Reading List! They even gave “The Fifth Horseman” three stars, which is their highest rating!

Click here to see their full list. For those interested in reading the stories, “The Fire and the Stag” appeared in Black Static issue 63, and “The Fifth Horseman” appeared in Black Static issue 66.

Get 10% off my LitReactor online writing class on how to write fast-paced novels, Runaway Prose, or any other LitReactor class, if you register by Sunday and use the discount code NEWYEAR2019!

And remember, online writing classes make perfect belated Christmas gifts for those budding writers in your life who swore they would start their novels in the New Year!

The kind folks at Killer Nashville asked me to write an article for their website. I wrote a piece called “Adding a Supernatural Element to Your Thriller,” and now it’s live! Click the excerpt below to read the whole thing:

Growing up, I was a Monster Kid through and through. One of my favorite memories from my youth is how every Sunday morning at 11 AM, WPIX-TV out of New York City would show an old, black-and-white Abbott and Costello movie. It seemed like they showed every film the comedy duo ever made, and week after week I watched and laughed along with their classic mix of physical comedy and wordplay. I enjoyed all the films, but my true, whole-hearted devotion was reserved for the movies in which Bud Abbott and Lou Costello encountered monsters, haunted houses, and mad scientists, movies like Hold That Ghost, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, Abbott, and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, and of course their greatest film and one of my all-time favorite movies, the incomparable Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.